Alexander Eiling

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Alexander Eiling (* 1974 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German art historian . In February 2018, he became the new head of the collection for modern art at the Städelsche Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main .

life and work

Alexander B. Eiling grew up in an art-friendly family. His mother was an employee, his father the Frankfurt district judge Karl-Heinz Eiling. He first studied law at the Law Faculty of the University of Passau and made a subject-specific foreign language training. He then switched to studying art history and Scandinavian studies at the University of Edinburgh . From 2002 to 2007 he worked under Jutta Schütt as a research assistant and assistant curator in the graphic collection of the Frankfurt Städel Museum and supervised exhibitions in the field of old master drawings and graphics as well as classical modern and contemporary art. Among other things, he was involved in the conception, organization and realization of exhibitions on Albrecht Dürer, Max Beckmann and Ernst Wilhelm Nay. In the summer semester of 2008, Eiling became a member of the art history department at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main with the work “The Works of German Expressionism in the Deutsche Bank Collection. An investigation into collection genesis and function; with a critical catalog of works ”. In the same year he became a research trainee in the exhibition sector at the State Art Gallery in Karlsruhe before moving to the Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen . As a collection curator for painting, sculpture and graphics from the Middle Ages to the modern age - with a focus on the art of the 20th and 21st centuries - he was responsible for the scientific processing and new presentation of the holdings as part of the new exhibition "Everything" (2009), as well as for exhibitions on Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Anton Henning or Gert and Uwe Tobias . His successor in Ludwigshafen was the art historian Nina Gütlicher.

In 2010 Eiling became - as successor to Siegmar Holsten - curator for painting and sculpture from the 19th to the 21st century at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe. Here he is primarily concerned with French art of the 19th century, copy research and German Expressionism. In Karlsruhe he realized the exhibitions “Déjà-vu? The art of repetition from Dürer to Youtube ”(2012),“ Degas. Classic and Experiment ”(2014/15) and the large-scale exhibition“ Cézanne. Metamorphoses "(2017/2018).

On February 19, 2018, Alexander Eiling moved from the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe to the Frankfurt Städel Museum, where he - as successor to Felix Krämer - became the new manager of the collection for modern art (1800–1945).

Alexander Eiling is the editor and author of numerous publications and scientific articles.

Fonts (selection)

  • Anton Henning: antonym. Painting. Drawing. Sculpture. Video 1990-2009 (2009),
  • Kaspar Toggenburger. Memento (2009)
  • Hackstück # 1 (2010)
  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Three Nudes in the Forest 1934/35 "(2010)
  • Gert and Uwe Tobias: Drawings and Collages (2010).

Curatorial work

  • 2017 Cézanne. Metamorphoses (Karlsruhe)
  • 2015: I'm here. From Rembrandt to the Selfie (Karlsruhe); 2016 auto portraits. de Rembrandt au selfie. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon
  • 2011: Lumière Noire: New Art from France (Karlsruhe); Our modernity - Cézanne. Miro. Matisse. Kirchner. Beckmann. Clover. (Karlsruhe)
  • 2010: worlds in a box. Mary Bauermeister (Ludwigshafen)

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Individual evidence


personal data
SURNAME Eiling, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eiling, Alexander B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main